Other Desert Cities (play)

For those who have not yet seen Jon Robin Baitz’s Pulitzer-nominated “Other Desert Cities,” the first of that prolific playwright’s works to reach Broadway, the play’s current production at the International City Theatre is a prime opportunity to redress that shortfall.

Set in Palm Springs in 2004, Baitz’s drama features some of the most full-blooded and morally complex characters this side of Arthur Miller. Well-heeled Lyman Wyeth (Nicholas Hormann) is a former actor turned politician once at the tiptop of the GOP hierarchy. Wife Polly (Suzanne Ford) is an iron-willed socialite who hobnobs with the likes of...

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